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Phillip Fitton

Phillip (Peter) Fitton was an industrial organometallic chemist at Union Carbide who reported in 1968 that aryl halides react with palladium(0), the entry step of the Heck reaction.

Phillip Milner

Phillip J. Milner is an American organic and materials chemist, an associate professor at Cornell University whose group designs metal–organic frameworks for separations, catalysis, and gas handling.

Phoebus Levene

Phoebus Levene (born Fishel Aaronovich Levin) was a Russian-born American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute studying nucleic acids, identifying ribose and deoxyribose and proposing the tetranucleotide hypothesis.

Photochemistry

Photochemistry, also called the photochemical effect, is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light, covering reactions inaccessible under ordinary thermal conditions.

Pieter C. Dorrestein

Pieter C. Dorrestein is a chemical biologist and mass spectrometry researcher at UC San Diego who co-develops the GNPS platform for molecular networking in metabolomics.

Pingyun Feng

Pingyun Feng is a materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside known for zeolite-analog cobalt phosphates and chalcogenide fast-ion conductors, winning the 2017 Cotton Award.

Piotr Piecuch

Piotr Piecuch is a University Distinguished Professor of chemistry at Michigan State University known for developing renormalized and active-space coupled-cluster methods for bond breaking and excited states.

Piotr Rehbinder

Piotr Aleksandrovich Rehbinder (Пётр Александрович Ребиндер; 1898–1972) was a Soviet physical chemist who discovered the Rehbinder effect in 1928, founded physical-chemical mechanics, and led Soviet colloid chemistry for decades.

Piotr Zelenay

Piotr Zelenay is an electrochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Laboratory Fellow who has led the Fuel Cell Program since 2000 and is known for platinum-free fuel cell catalysts.

Placidus Plattner

Placidus Andreas Plattner (1904–1975) was a Swiss organic chemist who taught at ETH Zurich and later directed pharmaceutical research at Ciba Geigy and Hoffmann-La Roche.

Plamen Atanassov

Plamen Atanassov is a Bulgarian-trained American electrochemist and Chancellor's Professor at UC Irvine, known for iron–nitrogen–carbon fuel cell catalysts and elected president-elect of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2025.

Polly Arnold

Polly L. Arnold is a British inorganic chemist known for her work on rare earth and actinide chemistry, and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley since 2020.

Prashant K. Jain

Prashant K. Jain, also published as Prashant Jain, is a physical chemist who studies plasmonics and holds the G. L. Clark Professorship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Prashant Sonar

Prashant Sonar is an organic and printed electronics materials scientist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, known for research on organic semiconductors, transistors, and solar cells.

Prashant V. Kamat

Prashant V. Kamat is a physical chemist at the University of Notre Dame known for quantum dot solar cells, perovskite photophysics, and founding editorship of ACS Energy Letters.

Prashanth W. Menezes

Prashanth W. Menezes is a materials chemist who heads the Department of Materials Chemistry for Catalysis at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and studies electrocatalysts for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Prince E. Rouse

Prince E. Rouse (1917–2003) was an American physical chemist and rheologist whose 1953 Rouse model of polymer chain dynamics remains the standard starting point for molecular rheology.

Purnendu Κ. Dasgupta

Purnendu K. Dasgupta, known as Sandy, is an American analytical chemist at the University of Texas at Arlington, known for microdrop extraction and patented ion chromatography devices.

Qian Chen

Qian Chen is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for electron videography, using liquid-phase electron microscopy to film nanoparticles and proteins as they self-assemble.

Qiang Xu

Qiang Xu (徐强) is a chemist working on metal–organic framework catalysts for energy, Chair Professor at SUSTech in Shenzhen since 2020 after a career at Japan's AIST.

Qichun Zhang

Qichun Zhang (张其春, born 1970) is a materials chemist and full professor at City University of Hong Kong, known for covalent organic frameworks used as battery electrode materials.

Qiming Zhang

Qiming Zhang is an electrical engineer and materials scientist at Penn State, known for inventing relaxor ferroelectric polymers and discovering the giant electrocaloric effect in polymers.

Qingying Jia

Qingying Jia is an electrochemist known for work on iron–nitrogen–carbon fuel cell catalysts and hydrogen electrocatalysis, and a recipient of the 2023 ACS ENFL Emerging Researcher Award.

Quan Li

Quan Li (李全) is a materials scientist at Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute since 2004, known for his 2016 Nature paper controlling chiral liquid crystals with light alone.

Quinten A. Akkerman

Quinten A. Akkerman is a Dutch nanomaterials chemist who has led the Quantum Dot Synthesis and Characterization group at LMU Munich since 2021, studying lead halide perovskite nanocrystals.

R. Benny Gerber

R. Benny Gerber is an Israeli-born theoretical and computational chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UC Irvine, known for VSCF methods and predicted noble-gas molecules.

R. Bruce Weisman

R. Bruce Weisman is a Rice University chemist who mapped the optical spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes, developed methods to sort them, and founded Applied NanoFluorescence.

R. Graham Cooks

R. Graham Cooks is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University known for ambient ionization mass spectrometry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

R. Jürgen Behm

R. Jürgen Behm is a chemist who pioneered atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy of surface processes, then researched electrocatalysis and energy storage as professor at Ulm University from 1992 to 2020.

R. Morris Bullock

R. Morris Bullock is an American organometallic chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who directs the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis and develops cheap-metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen.